Two pillars in health care are the principles of patient autonomy and informed consent, otherwise known as the right to choose or reject treatment. These ethical principles are in place when a patient ...

Nurses interact with people during some of their most vulnerable moments and in highly personal ways. It’s why they often find themselves confronted with challenging ethical dilemmas that require ...

CARE-ACE supports autonomy through bounded agentic reasoning, in which diagnostic, prognostic, planning, and risk-assessment ...

Twenty years ago, when I was working in the intensive care unit, I saved a young man's life. He was 19 years old, and he was frothing at the mouth from life-threatening fluid filling his lungs after ...

Twenty years ago, when I was working in the intensive care unit, I saved a young man’s life. He was 19 years old, and he was frothing at the mouth from life-threatening fluid filling his lungs after ...

Renceh Flojo is a bioengineering major and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. As the population's median age trends higher and higher ...